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to investigate the cost ol living they decide to stay where they are. 

 I want to put this before you smiply so you can understand the prob- 

 lem we are facing. If the Department of Agriculture is to use 

 efficiently and economically the money that is appropriated, we must 

 have men of vision, men of ability, and leaders in their lines to caiTv 

 on the work: so that this one little item here on this last page is 

 more important from the standpoint of the future work of the depart- 

 ment than much that precedes it. T hope and anticipate that that 

 situation will be finally relieved by the reclassification system, but 

 the Department of Agriculture can not afford to simply mark time 

 until sucli time as the reclassification becomes available to us. 



Mr. Magee. Does the reclassification bill take care of it? 



Doctor Ball. The reclassification bill, of course, would abolish this 

 legislation. 



Mr. Magee. Will it give you sufficient salaries to get the men 

 whom you have in mind? 



Doctor Ball. That, of course, I can not say, because the reclassi- 

 fication bill has not been formulated yet. 



Mr. Magee. But there is a reclassification bill pending, is there not? 



Doctor Ball. It is pending, but with three changes in salaries, so 

 tliat none of us have any idea what the provision will be. 



]\fr. Magee. How do the salaries there compare with the salaries 

 provided in this section of the bill ? 



Doctor Ball. As reported out of the Senate committee and under 

 the consideiation of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate at 

 this time the salaries would be very helpful to the department. I 

 thmk they would reasonably meet the situation. 



Mr. Magee. How do they compare m particular instances with 

 these salaries ? 



Doctor Ball. They are very much better than these, because j'^ou 

 have here a limitation of So, 000, and in the present bill there are 

 only 1 1 positions above that. 



Mr. Macjee. Wliat is the maximum? 



Doctor Ball. SO, 500. 



Mr. Magee. I mean iii the bill. 



Doctor Ball. I can not tell you exactly. It is above S6,500. 

 probably above .$7,000 as a maximum for scientific workers, and 

 approximately S8,00{) for administrative heads. They recognize 

 administrative heads above scientific work. 



Mr. Anderson. The Secretary made a statement in regard to the 

 number of places that had been used. Have j^ou those figures? 



Doctor Ball. I Jiave them in detail. The Secretary had them 

 summarized, and 1 will put the summarv in the record. 



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